Akira Amaterasu was a young street girl, who lost everything about her and was left alone to fend for herself. Her longing to interact with people drew her to play VR games. Of course, her consistent playing has caused her to gain more experience and become one of most formidable VR game players. Until one day, she's attacked by some other players, who took off all safety protocols, defeated her, and left her for dead in an alley. As she contemplates on her life, she is unexpectedly saved by a young man called Aoba Seragaki.
A year later, Akira has been able to put her life back together and live a more peaceful one with Aoba, his grandmother, Tae, and their Allmates, Saki and Ren. However, their life comes to a sudden change as they learn of something stirring some rumors of a legendary gang called Morphine and people begin to go missing. After the gang, Dry Juice, all go missing, Aoba and Akira learn that they are linked together by special abilities, Aoba's being a power called Scrap, an ability that allows him to enter the minds of others and either help or destroy them, and Akira's having premonitions, which allow her to prevent the outcomes of tragedies or injuries from occurring, as well as being able to protect a person's unconscious mind as Aoba uses Scrap on them.
Together, Akira, Aoba, Ren, Aoba's childhood friend, Koujaku, and their new friends, Noiz, Clear, and Mink must go to the Platinum Jail resort and find the one that threatens to brainwash everyone on Midorijima Island and turn them into mindless puppets.
What is a Shinobi? Misaki often finds herself questioning that. From a small village, she had no choice but to become a ninja. Her leader needed her skills... but she wanted nothing more than to lead a normal life. Ninja from her small village die on missions and when she requests a leave, she's sent out of the village instead.
How will she do when she is assigned a mission to Konoha? Will a certain ANBU change her mind about the Shinobi world, in spite of his own hatred for this life as well?
What will happen when a strange figure saves Misaki's life then offers her a deal down a dark, unknown path?
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≪This story explores the world of Naruto, starting just before his birth. Drawing parallels from Kakashi's life to Misaki's, it narrows in on friendship, confusion, betrayal, hatred, and what it truly means to be a Shinobi.≫
『Excerpt from the story:』
"...what does it mean to be a Shinobi in this village? Just to die... be killed without reason. It's all so pointless."
His eyes shimmer with pain. I know the look as I have seen it on myself in the mirror.
His voice has lost its lazy monotone and is spiked with emotion I never thought the ANBU was capable of. "Ninja don't die for no reason... they live to die for the ones they care about... to protect their village and-" the last word is barely audible, "-comrades."
He leaves without another word, sliding his ANBU mask on and disappearing into the night air. Had I said something wrong?
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